Protests erupted in India on Wednesday (September 30), after police had the body of a female victim of gang rape cremated late at night, against the wishes of her family. The 19-year-old woman ...

NEW DELHI (India) — Indian police were accused Wednesday (Sept 30) of cremating the body of a 19-year-old woman against her family's will after she was allegedly gang-raped by four men in the ...

The covert cremation by police of the body of a 19-year-old gang-rape victim early Wednesday triggered protests and condemnations by citizens and activists in India. The Dalit (lower caste) woman was ...

LUCKNOW, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A low-caste Indian community prevented from holding a funeral by their upper-caste neighbours in a case that triggered widespread outrage have been given ...

Twenty-five years ago, former Indian legislator Jitender “Shunty” Singh stood at a cremation ground watching a bereaved father steal firewood from someone else’s pyre because he did not have the money ...

The roof at the site in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad district came down when dozens took shelter to escape the rain. A sniffer dog examines the debris after the roof of a shelter at a crematorium ...